Yes, or you would end up with a work week that exceeded six working days. According to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia:
The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was,
dependent upon the lunar cycle . . . Originally the New Moon was
celebrated in the same way as the Sabbath; gradually it became less
important while the Sabbath became more and more a day of religion and
humanity, of religious meditation and instruction, of peace and delight
of the soul (p. 410)
The New Moons were linked with Sabbaths as a special class of holy
days. They were days of rejoicing and feasting with even more
sacrifices preformed on New Moon then were offered on the seventh-day
Sabbath. Like the seventh-day Sabbath, the New Moons were to be days of
rest with no buying and selling. (See Amos 8:5.) Those who keep the
seventh-day Sabbath have long used Isaiah 66:23 as proof that the
seventh-day Sabbath will still be kept throughout eternity: "And it
shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one
Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith
Yahuwah."
The question is then asked, "If we’re going to be keeping the
seventh-day Sabbath throughout eternity, shouldn’t we be keeping it
now?" This text reveals that the calendar by which we will be keeping
the seventh-day Sabbath is one on which the New Moons are also observed
as worship days. If we will come to worship Yahuwah on New Moons
throughout eternity, should we not come to worship Him on those special
days now as well?
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